Month: September 2022

LIFE CIRCUIT BOARDS. "Andrew Ellington and Jared Ellefson of the University of Texas at Austin argued that a new breed of biologists was taking over the frontiers of science -- a breed that views life forms and DNA much the way the technology wizards who spawned IBM, Cisco, and Apple once looked at basic electronics, transistors, and circuits." http://www.cfr.org/united-states/biologys-brave-new-world/p31894 View in LinkedIn

COMPUTING AND BIOLOGY. "These two fields, each with spectacular private-sector and academic engagement, are colliding, merging, and transforming one another, as computer scientists speak of "DNA-based computation" and synthetic biologists talk of "life circuit boards." http://www.cfr.org/united-states/biologys-brave-new-world/p31894 View in LinkedIn

NEW LIFE FORMS. "The biologist has become an engineer, coding new life forms as desired." http://www.cfr.org/united-states/biologys-brave-new-world/p31894 View in LinkedIn

CRAIG VENTER claimed to have made the first new addition to the tree of life in the history of the universe. https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2016/03/24/bio-maverick-craig-venter-hacks-bacteria-to-have-tiniest-possible-genetic-code/#12f01f8d3505 View in LinkedIn

THE MASSIVE INVENTIVENESS of natural evolution is truly a spectacle to behold, from the endless quirkiness of physical morphology to the amazing creativity of genetics. Mobile genetic elements, viruses, bacteria and horizontal gene transfer have reinvented themselves millions of times over by every method unimaginable. Humans, but not Nature, are limited by their own imaginations. View in LinkedIn

DNA JOIN CIRCUIT. Video of the process. https://lnkd.in/dQrjeji View in LinkedIn

DNA STRAND DISPLACEMENT ANIMATION. It is hard to watch this brilliant animation and not think of intelligent molecules. Prions are just proteins that can replicate and evolve. Jumping genes are just strands of genetic code that have gained some lifestyle autonomy from the cell. Not just an idle thought. Life had to transition from the inanimate somewhere in the universe. http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=228977 View in LinkedIn

DNA JOIN AND FORK CIRCUIT ANIMATION, another provocative clip. https://lnkd.in/dZuK7Zn View in LinkedIn

"BIOLOGY IS THE NEXT IT INDUSTRY. "DNA is the software that makes the hardware. Life is becoming programmable, one of the most powerful shifts that the world has ever seen." (Andrew Hessel). https://lnkd.in/dfprhfp View in LinkedIn

NO LONGER PLASTICS. "Thirty years ago, the future lay in programming computers. Today, it’s programming cells." Allusion to Mrs Robinson's husband's advice to Ben... https://lnkd.in/d4dA-zH View in LinkedIn